Upon opening the door to room 5 you will encounter 11 Common Twargs (Reskinned Brigands from MM pg. 66 AC 8, HP 1-6, armed with stone tipped spears) The Twargs wear armor made from strung together Silver Coins. Worth 2200sp. This room has some form of magic circle carved into the floor, and small stone altars at the cardinal points.
Opening the door to room 4 reveals an empty pentagonal shaped room with the remains of mosaic Sorcerer's Star on the floor.
Crossing the hall to room 3 you will find 9 Giant Rats (AC7, HP 1-4 MM pg.81) rummaging thru the detritus of this otherwise empty room. The room is pentagonal shaped.
Opening the door in room 1 reveals a 10ft wide passage with a 5ft wide open directly across the hall. The opening frames the spiral staircase descending into darkness, as well as 4 openings at the center of each of the other 4 walls of this pentagonal room.
What I'll doing is rolling up a legal pad page of room contents using the 1979 Advanced D&D Dungeon Master's Guide.
Specifically starting by rolling on Table V.F. Chamber/Room Contents. pg. 171.
When Treasure is indicated Table V.G. Treasure pg. 171.
When Monsters are present, Dungeon Random Monster Tables; Monster Level 1 pg. 175.
I'll roll on higher level tables as my character party advances.
My job is make the encounters fit the theme of the dungeon section.
The Pass at Zyr^rin at the top of the Ezkaitz Horma mountains is unforgivably steep, swarming with tribes of wild Twargs and Orc warbands. At the very top of the pass there is a crooked, jagged path the leads even high up. At the end of that path buried between the forbidding peaks lies the ruin of the Tower of Nemyrothys.
Until a few months ago only the occasional storm that had the strength to drive the creatures down from the heights was the only noteworthy event anyone could think of, until recently. A trade caravan just in from Gateway Fortress was heard to tell of what they described as a loud explosion and sounds of combat coming thru the valley at the foot of the pass.
Should an intrepid group of adventurers make the climb to the ruins there is a 30% chance of running into 3 Lg Spiders (MM pg 90, AC 8, HD 1+1) on the small plateau where the broken stones of the tower lie in disarray.
Approximately 30feet down from the edge of the plateau that overlooks the steep drop into the crevasse there is a newly formed hole in the side of the mountain. From the edge of the hole the floor is 20ft down opening into a pentagonal room 60 feet across. The room is empty except for a few small empty barrels with metallic looking black sand scattered about. A stout oak door stands in the middle of the wall opposite the entrance hole. Examination of the inside of the hole will reveal soot around hole. Examination of the small kegs reveals that the black sand is slightly metallic. (Duergar Blasting powder)
Ran across an interesting idea the other day. Create 1 room per day, and make a MegaDungeon for the whole year.
Here is the original post: https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23
I was a tad bored, and was going to start up a 1st ed. AD&D random dungeon. So now I'll just extend it out to encompass the whole year. I run random dungeons to either generate ideas for a new dungeon or adventure, trying out new character concepts while working with a party, or just because 5e is too easy.
What I'll be doing is generating the random dungeon and it's contents to run a party of characters thru to gauge survivability. It's going to be done in 1st Ed. AD&D with 8 characters. Zog - HalfOgre Barbarian, Praxis - Human Fighter with Psionics, Bremmer - Human Fighter, Fallon - Human Paladin, Louis & Pierre - Human Fighters (Crossbowmen), Raxx - Half Orc Fighter/Assassin, Ferix - Elven Thief/Illusionist, Navarre - Half Elf Cleric/M-U.
There are 3 days in which I have to decide on a theme for the Monstrosity to come...
Edit: Just coalesced into The Vaults of Nemyrothys. Previous references here and here.
Going to be interesting to see what crawls out of the cobweb shrouded grey matter, mine and yours. Good Luck and have fun.
Keeper of the Musty Tomes.
